Driving down blistered severe The rapacious maw of our despair Black dog follows, strip club echoes The raven's shadow across the ghetto Up the hill in an unmarked grave The mother of American darkness lays Liberty or death to start the battle There's nonesuch place for human chattelHanging by a threat Now you can choke on it Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it This is a reckoning You hear the raven's scream Hanging by a threat So go and choke on itAcross the devil's own half acr? There's rusted gallows for an ang?l The ghosts that built this city scream Of commerce and inhumanity Cancer rides the freeway's edge Falling statues and cigarettes Bullets whip the screaming kettle As tear gas cloaks the monumentalHanging by a threat Now you can choke on it Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it This is a reckoning You hear the raven's scream Hanging by a threat So go and choke on itChained beneath a parking lot Savaged on the auction block In antebellum geography Rage, horror, historyHanging by a threat Now you can choke on it Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it This is a reckoning You hear the raven's scream Hanging by a threat So go and choke on itNevermore Nevermore
